James B. Finley

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Bishop Soule you are hereby notifyed that a charge will be preferred against you as Bishop of the Methodist Episcople Church for Improper Conduct.

Specification 1st -- In calling officially on James O. Andrew to exercise the office of a Bishop in said church in contervention of the act of the General Conference in his case.

Sp. 2 -- In disregarding the decition of the Collage of Bishops in his case.

Sp. 3 -- In betraying the trust committed to you in carrying out their decition which you were in honor and honesty bound to do.

Sp. 4 -- In betraying your high trust in the Episcopate in the ME Church by aiding and abetting in a secession from said church by your general course and the low scurillous letters you wrote for publication.

Sp. 5 -- By using language bordering on the prophain declaring that your principles were as firm as the throne of God thereby professing an infallability whitch does not belong to man.

You are hereby notifyed that you will be called upon to answer to this charge and these specifications at the next General Conference of the Methodist Episcople Church.

April 1845

J.B. Finley

Abstract Number - 155

Abstract Number

155

Publication Date

4-1-1845

Keywords

General Ministry; Soule/Finley Quarrel; Schism; Church South (MECS); James O. Andrew; Episcopacy; Secession

Letter from James B. Finley to Bishop Soule


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